Monday, February 11, 2008

Photography on the fly

Remember Sun-In for your hair? Man I wanted to use that stuff but my mom would never let me. I was thinking of that as I was painting a wall in the living room this weekend (in a color called Sparkler, which I think is a Glidden color but I had it made with a Behr paint, cause I don't like Glidden paint, but sometimes I choose a random color that's not Behr, but anyway). The color reminds me of sunlight. And very, very light for a girl like me who likes deeper colors, but I dunno, you know, I can do something different. On one wall, anyway. Oh and I'm getting a vintage sofa covered in that swatch thats hanging on the ladder up there.

As we do about every month, we hosted an uninvited and very terrified bird for a while yesterday (wasn't I just rambling about birds? Is the inspiration more clear to you now?) These little wrens get into the house a lot, I never know how. We had a mother on the patio last spring who the kids affectionately called Tweety. We watched her bring worms for the new babies and I even got some really good photos of the tiny little ugly things. But you never saw those cause, well, they were really ugly. Cute ugly, I guess. Five of them. We watched them learn to fly in the patio, the littlest one always gripping the screens and falling. The biggest challenge was keeping Leo away from them. He means well with his playful curiosity but that can get ugly real fast, especially when the kids are watching. Everyone is sure this is one of her spawn. Look at her up there, I totally tricked her with the leaf silhouette in this painting. Thats close little birdie, but not quite.

Oh you are a smart little birdie! Very good! But those are fake. Stay there for just a sec though you look perfect on those branches. How much does it cost to stuff a wren? (I am totally kidding I couldn't kill a bird. That's Leo's job.)

Yes, follow the light! Good thinking!

No not the closet!! Especially that closet, man I've been lost in their for days myself just trying to find one shoe. Come on, whistle whistle whistle, come on little birdie!

Quick Juliana! You take the screen off the window while I overexpose the photo! Okay, everyone! Whistle! (Eleni's lips trip on one another as she tries to whistle and she resorts to high-pitched "hoo-hoo" ing.)

The above photo looks more cruel than it is. It was really a gentle nudge with the broom and not a whack, I promise. She was a smart bird (possible?). Once the dog was out of the way she found the other window after only a few low fly-overs that made us all scream and giggle.

And no one even got bird poop in their hair. Which would have been just as pretty as Sun-In.

What a cute photo-story! Glad it was a bird and not a bat. Yikes! (Talk about screaming.)Mom never let me use Sun-In either, so I resorted to lemon juice. It worked! Might have to try that again someday. Pretty paint.

LOL...my mother never let me go near sun in either. Lemon juice for me. And, well, given the amount of swimming I did -- probably a good thing (green is a lovely color, just not in my hair). Looks like you had a fun adventure with the bird -- me? I'd have been ducking for cover :0).

I'm so excited to see the Drawing Room swatches (I know wrong post)! But I thought I would let you know that I've had great luck coaxing birds out with a big feather duster. They seem to stay calm when you collect them up and then just give it a tiny shake outside to set the bird free.

Oh, WRENS! I love wee birdies so very much, although I agree that perhaps having them *in*side the house is sub-optimal, as my husband would say.

We have two kitties who would love it very much if wrens were to come visit our house, of course, but I don't think my sensibilities would recover from the carnage. So maybe I'll keep watching the birdies from the inside, out. :)

Thanks for sharing these photos -- I have to say that wee wren pictures always make me squee. A lovely boost to a rotten Monday!

Oh, I love your photos! The one with the broom reminded me of a photo I took in my cousin's apartment, when her husband was trying to shoo a bat out of their dining room. Definitely not as cute as the wren. Would you believe playing "Ghostbusters" to the little guy didn't even get him to budge? :)

One of my internet friends had a wren who laid eggs in a basket in her bathroom! Of course, she had to let it all play out. In the end, the mother bird disappeared and the dad bird took over--with cooperation from the human residents, the peeps were successfully launched.

ahhh birds in the house. we recently had a mockingbird fly down our chimney into our house. i opened both french doors but the thing would not leave, he kept flying and forth and scraping his head on the ceiling (so much that we had streaks of his birdie blood all over!!) it took me 15 minutes for the thing to finally leave. at least your bird was cute while in your house!!

That was hilarious! We too had a little wren family last spring. They made a nest in a box underneath our patio. It was so neat to see the mama and daddy feeding the babies. Such good parents. The children had a great time watching them grow.

LOL! Quite entertaining! Glad the little bird got out safely...and total bonus without getting any bird poops in your hair! Sun-in, yeah, I never tried it for fear the same would happen to me that happened to a cousin who was obsessed with wanting blond hair and tried it and his hair (yes, I said his )turned bright orange! Glad I didn't try it!

I love Carolina Wrens. They have the cutest faces with their "Cleopatra a la Elizabeth Taylor" eye make up. They are so perky. They have a pretty song for such tiny birds. A pair of Carolina Wrens raises a family on our back porch every spring. Some years we get to see the babies launch their flying careers, some years we miss it.

That was hi-larry-us! Goodness. What fun! Or not fun... Fun if its in someone else's house. That photo of the bird in the closet reminds me of "where's waldo" while I squint and try to see the bird in the frame. heh. ~jen~

This is exactly why I love to read your blog. You take everyday life stuff, and with your photos and witt make an entertaining moment for the rest of us.

I'm reminded of the time a bat was in our house - dive bombing the girls and I as we hid under the covers on my bed. Husband out of town so my brave 10 year old son, chased after the bat with broom in hand. Long story, short ending for the bat.

We had a wren (or two)in the house just before Christmas - down the chimney I think. It took up residence in the Christmas tree. Very decorative are wrens. We had a starling the other day and they are altogether more hysterical and oh my god where am I, where's the window, how can I get out of here, bang crash!I must be honest and say that I paused before opening the windows to take pics!

We have the same sorts of incidents! I think the birds try to nest on the door wreath and when someone opens it..in they come! This was us the first time Caroline's teacher came to dinner!! He must have thought we were nuts...chasing a bird with two brooms around the house!! The yellow color will be really pretty, especially with your fabric. And I was a Sun-In girl... but it worked better on blondes (less orangy!).

Your story and pictures are hilarious! At least you didn't have a bat in your house. That happened to my mother-in-law! They ended up trapping it against the wall with a tennis racket, and stabbing it with a pocket knife! Ahhh! Needless to say, this is the grandkids favorite story about their grandparents!

Oh what an entertaing day and story! We had a hummingbird stuck in the house once. And it actually knocked itself out on the glass. Fortunately, we took it outside, it came too & flew off squeking at as!

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